clever
• adjective (cleverer, cleverest) 1 quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas. 2 skilled at doing something. — DERIVATIVES cleverly adverb cleverness noun. — ORIGIN originally in the sense quick to catch hold : perhaps of Dutch or German origin, and related to CLEAVE2.
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